DELDOT

Virtual Infrastructure Reaps Big Savings For Dept. of Transportation

The Client

The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) provides a wide range of services, including building and operating public roads and related transportation infrastructure, operating statewide public transportation, providing air and rail planning, licensing drivers as well as titling and registering all motor vehicles.

The Business Need

DelDOT requires a substantial IT server infrastructure running multiple operating systems to support its broad range of software applications and services. As its server farm sprawled, server utilization was decreasing while space and power requirements continued to increase. DelDOT was seeking a solution to continue to provide additional computing resources while reducing its server, facilities and power consumption costs.

The Solution

Working in close collaboration with the DelDOT team, Diamond Technologies provided consulting services to assist DelDOT with the architecture, implementation and support of its virtual server environment built on VMware products. The DelDOT virtual environment consists of multiple operating systems and includes several Linux Oracle virtual servers housing over 100 GB of data. The current virtual platform allows DelDOT to run over 40 virtual servers on just 4 physical servers running VMware software. Each physical server is configured with 32 GB of RAM. DelDOT plans to further leverage virtual server technology. Additional plans call for expanding the existing SAN to more than double the available storage and configuring the fiber channel switches to allow for 4 new VMware servers, which will allow creation of over 50 new virtual machines. When the project is fully implemented, nearly 100 physical servers will be replaced by 8 physical servers running VMware software!

Business Impact

An analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO) estimates that the virtual infrastructure provided in this solution results in a ROI of 595.2% over a 3-year period based on the initial investment. From an environmental standpoint, the virtual infrastructure results in a reduction of 295,499 lbs (134 tons) of carbon emissions, equivalent to the average emissions of taking 25 cars off the road per year.*

*Source: VMware TCO/ROI calculator report